DIY Plumbing: How to Take Care of Faucets and Fixtures

This guest post shows how to take care of your faucets and fixtures, mostly by cleaning, but it has a few other DIY tips that are helpful also.

You have faucets and fixtures in places like your kitchen and bathrooms. You might even have them in your laundry room too. As with most components of your home, these items will require some regular maintenance. This is especially true when it comes to keeping them clean. The following are some tips on how to keep your faucets and fixtures in good working order.

Lemon and Vinegar

When it comes to cleaning chrome faucets and fixtures, vinegar has always been a safe and powerful way to clean up lime deposits. Soaking the fixtures in vinegar for an hour can erode lime and restore the shine to your chrome components. If you want a better smell, however, lemon is a good natural cleaner too. Lemon is also great for eliminating water stains and soap scum build-up around your faucet and fixtures. If you are using brass fixtures, you will be more limited in your choices of cleaners. Often, distilled water is best in these cases.

Clean in the Hard to Reach Places Too

To keep sink and tub fixtures moving like they are brand-new, you must take extra special care to get into crevices and underneath tight mountings where rust and mineral deposits can accumulate. In these situations, using a toothbrush or dental floss to work in and out of hard to reach places can truly get the gunk out. Certain areas will be more difficult, but you can eliminate the problem with persistence.

Clearing Drains

While it may be relatively easy to work out problems with your fixture and faucet. Cleaning out a troublesome drain can sometimes be a more daunting task. If you are not sure the best way to proceed, then you may want to work with a company like Ez Flow Plumbing and draw from their years of expertise in clearing drainage systems. If a clog is creating a drainage nightmare, it may require tools you do not possess to get far enough into a drain to handle the situation.

Your faucets and fixtures are important components for your tubs and sinks that should last for a long time. If you take care of these components, they will function like new until you decide you want to change them out for something more modern. Additionally, keeping your faucet and fixtures in good working order will help to prevent unnecessary rust and damage to these parts as well.

About The Author

David Nash

Dave Nash served 6 years in active duty in the US Marines, and is in his 18th year of state service. During his career he worked in both State Emergency Management and Corrections. Currently he is a Corrections Academy Instructor. Additionally David is an NRA Training Counselor and author of 10 different books relating to self reliance.